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networking, usb and pcimcia

cobling

Posted 22 November 2006 - 03:53 AM

cobling

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ok what i think happend is the power cord came out of the laptop and as i have no battery it turned off.

after restarting the computer (running windows xp) an error came up saying one of the usb slots drew too much power and it asked if i wanted to reset it so it would work again, which is what i did. the only external device i had connected to the computer at the time was the wireless network card in the pcimcia slot

so i went to connect to the wireless connection and noticed it wasn't there, opened my network connections and there were no connections shown.

then tried to plug a cable link to the router in and the network card lit up but i still had no connections, i also tried to plug a usb dongle into the computer and the light came on the dongle but i couldn't access it

i then opened the device menager and my network card device was gone but the usb device is still there.

since then i have gone to a system restore point and reinstalled windows but it hasn't changed anything